£600 Gaming Build! Spec me up scotty!

gradyhawks

gradyhawks

gradyhawks

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Wondering what kind of system you can get for £600. Will be used for playing games like Rome 2, Battlefield 4 as well as anything new that comes out. Not looking for ultra settings, I know that you can't get that for £600 but want to see what people come up with.

Will need everything aside from windows. Gaming will be done at 1920 x 1200! Also, if you had an extra £100 to spend, how would you spend it?
 
YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280 TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £179.99
1 x Intel Core i5-4430 3.00GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £131.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £68.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Crucial MX100 128GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT128MX100SSD1) £53.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £49.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.98
1 x NZXT Source 210 Elite Midi Tower Case - White £39.95
1 x Deepcool GAMMAXX S40 CPU-Cooler - 120mm £19.99
Total : £655.86 (includes shipping : £12.50).




I'd get something like this. Strong i5 CPU, as well as an R9 280. Should be capable of ultra. Around £50 over though, to drop it back under;

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280 TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £179.99
1 x Intel Core i3-4340 3.60GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail £113.99
1 x Gigabyte Z97P-D3 Intel Z97 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard £68.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Crucial MX100 128GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT128MX100SSD1) £53.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.98
1 x EVGA 500W 80 Plus Power Supply (100-W1-0500-KR) £39.95
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower White/Blue £29.99
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler £14.99
Total : £607.45 (includes shipping : £8.00).





Also, an AMD CPU build could be good.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280 TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £179.99
1 x AMD Piledriver FX-8 Eight Core 8320 Black Edition 3.50GHz (Socket AM3+) Processor - Retail £113.99
1 x Gigabyte 990XA-UD3 AMD 990X (Socket AM3+) DDR3 Motherboard £79.99
1 x TeamGroup Vulcan ORANGE 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-19200C11 2400MHz Dual Channel Kit (TLAD38G2400HC11CDC01) £55.99
1 x Crucial MX100 128GB SATA 2.5” 7mm SSD + 9.5mm Adapter (CT128MX100SSD1) £53.99
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £39.98
1 x EVGA 500W 80 Plus Power Supply (100-W1-0500-KR) £39.95
1 x BitFenix Neos ATX Tower White/Blue £29.99
1 x Raijintek Aidos Direct Contact CPU Cooler £14.99
Total : £618.46 (includes shipping : £8.00).

 
Meh, the Z97 board is the same price as the bottom end H97 boards. I'll have another go later
 
Even though I'd normally say Intel, I'd go for something like that 8320 build i did over an i3 any day
 
Doomedspeed said:
Not really as a decent H97/B95 board is only £5-£10 cheaper. Well worth the extra just to use faster RAM.

Though id go with an 8320 build for that budget.
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I was thinking more about the overclocking side of things. Seems a bit of a waste having a Z97 board with a non 'k' cpu.
 
Looking good! Might well go for the AMD route, as it means saving some cash to have a prettier case. Will see how much extra cash my mate can muster up and maybe go for the new i5 k.

Cheers chaps!
 
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